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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

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160 points redohmy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sbarre ◴[21 Nov 25 21:40 UTC] No.46009300[source]▶
I'm so mad about this, I need DDR5 for a new mini-PC I bought and prices have literally gone up by 2.5x..

128GB used to be 400$ in June, and now it's over $1,000 for the same 2x64GB set..

I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.

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phoboslab ◴[21 Nov 25 22:18 UTC] No.46009680[source]▶
I just looked at the invoice for my current PC parts that I bought in April 2016: I paid 177 EUR (~203 USD) for 32GB (DDR4-2800).

It's kinda sad when you grow up in a period of rapid hardware development and now see 10 years going by with RAM $/GB prices staying roughly the same.

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1. Terr_ ◴[21 Nov 25 23:11 UTC] No.46010177[source]▶
Aside, $203 USD back then would be about $276 USD after inflation. Not a primary effect, but contributory.